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PayPal’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sri Shivananda, has said his company is leveraging on the Google Cloud platform to power billions of transactions across the globe.
Google’s Engineering Vice President, Ben Treynor Sloss, quotes the PayPal’s senior executive as saying in a blog post published on Tuesday.
“At PayPal, we process billions of transactions across the globe, and need to do so securely, instantaneously and economically.
“As a result, security, networking and infrastructure were key considerations for us when choosing a cloud provider,” he said.
Google stated over the course of three years it has spent over $30 billion in improving its infrastructure – from data centers to subsea cables, “and we’re not done yet,” the Internet giant added.
The Internet search company went further to reiterate commitment to connecting the world and serving its Cloud customers.
“Today we’re excited to announce that we’re adding three new submarine cables, and five new regions,” Google said in a statement.
TheNewsGuru reports Google will open its Netherlands and Montreal regions in the first quarter of 2018, followed by Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong – with more to come.
In 2019 the Internet search giant will commission three subsea cables: Curie, a private cable connecting Chile to Los Angeles; Havfrue, a consortium cable connecting the U.S. to Denmark and Ireland; and the Hong Kong-Guam Cable system (HK-G), a consortium cable interconnecting major subsea communication hubs in Asia.
“Together, these investments further improve our network – the world’s largest – which by some accounts delivers 25% of worldwide internet traffic.
“Companies like PayPal leverage our network and infrastructure to run their businesses effectively,” Google said.
“With Google Cloud, we have access to the world’s largest network, which helps us reach our infrastructure goals and best serve our millions of users,” Sri Shivananda affirms.
TheNewsGuru also reports the Google network has over 100 points of presence and over 7,500 edge caching nodes. This investment means faster and more reliable connectivity for all its users.
The technology firm said it wouldn’t have been possible to deliver products like Machine Learning Engine, Spanner, BigQuery and other Google Cloud Platform and G Suite services at the quality of service users expect if it were not for the Google network.
“Our cable systems provide the speed, capacity and reliability Google is known for worldwide, and at Google Cloud, our customers are able to make use of the same network infrastructure that powers Google’s own services.
“While we haven’t hastened the speed of light, we have built a superior cloud network as a result of the well-provisioned direct paths between our cloud and end-users.
“We’re excited about these improvements. We’re increasing our commitment to ensure users have the best connections in this increasingly connected world,” Google stated conclusively.